Snowbirds - Pájaros de nieve shows a life in transition through unintentionally intervened snapshots.
After four years planting roots in London, work, family and immigration challenges led to pursuing a shared life between New York, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Buenos Aires. Initially a process the shifting meaning of home, the results explores our relationship to the ceaseless march of time, how it overwrites and obscures the memory of the places, people and moments that were once clear.
The process of developing of the film revealed hundreds of images impacted by unanticipated chemical and mechanical interventions. Each intervention fundamentally altered a moment, removing data and taking a memory out of time. Like memory, the camera’s failure was inconsistent. The more movement, the more change, the more unpredictable it all became. Through this series of images, I want to examine what happens when a camera fails its promise of capturing moments as we want them to be, and challenge what happens when we let go of the control of how we process memory.
